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Athletic Injuries 203 — at a Glance
| Course: | Emergency Procedures for the Sideline Physician · 2 CE hours · $40 |
| Faculty: | Dennis O'Hara, DC, DACBSP · sports chiropractic diplomate, former D.C. United team chiropractor |
| Format: | On-demand online video with clinical demonstrations and assessment · downloadable notes · 1 year of access · instant certificate |
| Pricing: | $20/hr · automatic 10% off at 6–9 hrs, 20% off at 10+ hrs in one order · no promo codes |
| Approval: | PACE Provider #34015544 · co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College · acceptance varies by state |
Board-approved · PACE Provider #34015544 · CE Broker auto-reporting for states served · Instant certificate
Athletic Injuries 203 is a focused chiropractic sports medicine course for the doctor who provides on-field and sideline coverage — because when an athlete goes down, the team chiropractor must be prepared to lead a calm, organized response from the initial survey through safe transfer and follow-up care. Dr. Dennis O'Hara, a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians and former team chiropractor for D.C. United, reviews the essential sideline emergency procedures for the chiropractic team physician: first aid, primary and secondary surveys, on-field triage, and the assessment of head, spinal, and extremity injuries.
Emphasis is on practical decision-making, communication with the sports medicine team and EMS, and scope-appropriate emergency management that supports athlete safety and return-to-play planning — sideline preparation and equipment, recognition of head and brain injury, spinal stabilization considerations, extremity red flags, coordination with coaching staff, and documentation after the event. This 2-hour online course is built for the chiropractor covering games, meets, and tournaments, and for anyone who wants to be the doctor in the stands who knows what to do. Every completion generates an instant certificate for your renewal file.
Choose Your Sports CE Path — Three Lanes, One Curriculum
The catalog is organized the way sports injuries actually present — by mechanism. Thirteen 2-hour courses: build by the sports your patients play, the regions they injure, or the field readiness event coverage demands. The full catalog lives on the Athletic Injuries category page.
1 · Regional & Cross-Sport Injuries
The body regions and exercise injuries that cross every sport — the presentations any active patient can bring.
201: Hand & Thumb
206: Athletic Injuries of the Shoulder
209: Exercise Injuries
2 · Sport-Specific Injury Patterns
Eight sports, each taught by the injury patterns its demands produce — mechanism, evaluation, treatment, and return to play.
202: Basketball Injuries
204: Swimming Injuries
205: Hockey Injuries
207: Weight Lifting
208: Football Injuries – Turf Toe
210: The Triathlete
211: Upper Body Golf Injuries
212: Racquet Sports Injuries
3 · Field Readiness & Athlete Safety
What the chiropractor covering games and events needs before the whistle — emergency procedures and environmental illness. You are here: Athletic Injuries 203.
203: Emergency Procedures for the Sideline Physician
213: Dehydration & Heat Illness
New sports-medicine courses are added to these lanes as faculty release them.
What You'll Learn in Athletic Injuries 203
• Review core sideline emergency procedures for the chiropractic team physician — sideline preparation, essential emergency equipment, and first aid.
• Apply primary and secondary survey methods and on-field triage to injury assessment when an athlete goes down.
• Identify key signs of head and brain injury, spinal injury requiring stabilization, and extremity emergencies with red-flag findings that require escalation.
• Integrate communication with EMS and coaching staff, documentation, follow-up planning, and return-to-play considerations into sideline care.
Your Athletic Injuries Faculty
Dennis O'Hara, DC, DACBSP — instructor of this course — teaches sideline emergency procedures (203) and athletic shoulder injuries (206). A Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, Dr. O'Hara earned his Doctor of Chiropractic and a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology from National College of Chiropractic in 1992 and served as team chiropractor for D.C. United of Major League Soccer from 1996 to 1998. With nearly thirty years of clinical experience, he teaches sports chiropractic, athletic injury management, rehabilitation, and return-to-play decision making for CCEDseminars and as postgraduate faculty for Texas Chiropractic College, with an emphasis on movement assessment and practical clinical reasoning.
Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM leads nine of the thirteen courses in the series, from hand and thumb through basketball, swimming, hockey, weight lifting, triathlon, golf, racquet sports, and exercise injuries. A 1995 graduate of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, Navy veteran, and founder of Championship Chiropractic in Las Vegas, Dr. Ozello is certified in sports medicine and clinical nutrition and serves as faculty for CCEDseminars and Texas Chiropractic College.
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN teaches football injuries and turf toe (208) with a chiropractic neurologist's perspective; a Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology, Dr. Hall also leads the CCEDseminars Neurology series.
Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN teaches dehydration and heat illness (213), bringing board certification in clinical nutrition to athlete safety and environmental physiology.
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Where Athletic Injury Hours Count — State Rules Worth Knowing
Sports injury evaluation and management is core clinical subject matter, which is exactly what several state boards ask for. In Iowa, these hours feed the 36-hour clinical case-management minimum; in Rhode Island, they serve the 50-of-60 clinical requirement; and in Vermont — where practice-management and philosophy coursework earns no credit at all — athletic injury coursework sits squarely inside the clinical-focus rule.
Online-format allowances still vary by state — some accept every hour online, others cap distance learning or require in-person blocks. Check your state's guide in the full state directory before building your renewal plan.
Build Your Sports Medicine Block
Every course in the series is 2 hours at $40, so the automatic discounts do the bundling for you: any three courses (6 hours) earns 10% off, and five or more (10+ hours) in a single order earns 20% off — the full 26-hour series lands at roughly $416 instead of $520, with no promo codes. The natural pairing for this course is 213 Dehydration & Heat Illness, the other half of the Field Readiness lane, and then the sports you cover — 208 Football Injuries, 205 Hockey Injuries, and 202 Basketball Injuries are the contact and collision presentations a sideline doctor sees first. Browse Athletic Injuries Courses
Athletic Injuries 203 — Frequently Asked Questions
What does Athletic Injuries 203 cover?
Sideline emergency procedures for the chiropractic team physician: sideline preparation and essential emergency equipment, first aid, primary survey, secondary survey, and on-field triage, recognition and assessment of head and brain injuries, spinal injury assessment and stabilization considerations, extremity emergency procedures and red-flag findings, communication and coordination with EMS and coaching staff, and documentation and follow-up planning after sideline events. Also known as sideline emergency care, team physician emergency procedures, on-field injury assessment, sports emergency action planning, and emergency management for the sports chiropractor.
How many CE hours is Athletic Injuries 203, and what is the format?
2 CE hours, fully online and self-paced — a recorded online presentation you can pause and resume at any time, followed by an assessment. Your certificate is available in your account immediately upon successful completion, and enrollment includes one year of access.
Does this course cover concussion and spinal injury on the field?
Yes. Recognition and assessment of head and brain injury, spinal injury assessment with stabilization considerations, and the extremity red flags that require escalation are the core of the course — taught through the primary and secondary survey so the chiropractor covering a game knows what to check, in what order, when to hold the athlete, and how to hand off to EMS and communicate with the coaching staff.
Is this course accepted for my state's chiropractic license renewal?
Athletic Injuries 203 is a PACE Provider #34015544 program co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College and is accepted in most U.S. states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, six Canadian provinces, and more than 50 international jurisdictions. The complete approval list appears at the bottom of this page, and your state's online-hour rules are summarized in its CE guidelines page.
How do discounts and certificates work?
Courses are $20 per credit hour, and discounts apply automatically in a single order — 10% off at 6–9 hours, 20% off at 10 or more. No promo codes. Each completion generates an instant certificate with a permanent copy in your account dashboard, and CE Broker reporting is handled automatically for states served.
State Approval and Licensing Reminder
Continuing education requirements — including online-hour caps and clinical-hour minimums — vary by jurisdiction. Review the online chiropractic CE guidelines page and contact CCEDseminars with questions about your specific licensing requirements before registering.
Ready to Enroll in Athletic Injuries 203?
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart, or pair it with 213 to complete the Field Readiness lane.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 25, 2026 (CT)